Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-16
ANARCHIST DEMONSTRATION.
That Is What the Funeral Procession in
Chicago Amounted to.
1t Passed or Quietly and Was Witnessed
by Immense Throngs.
The Scarlet Color Flaunted on the Cof.
fins and by Female Paraders.
The Route Taken Over the Haymarket
Where the Bomb Burst.
Vengeful Orations at the Cemetery Cut
Short by Captain Black.
Tho Monster Meeting In Trafalgar
Square, London, Suppressed.

Square, London, Suppressed.
Police Aided by the Military Succeed In
Preserving Order.
A Rabid Speech From Most General
News Of the Day.
CHICAGO, November ia great deal OF
excitement was caused among members OF
the Second Regiment early this morning by
the report of an attempt to assassinate
ono OF the guards on duty on the outside OF
the armory at Washington boulevard and
Curtis street. Private NJ. Bell was patrol.
ing at the north end OF the building and at
about 4:4O O'Clock was startled by the re.
port OF a gun, and a bullet whistling past
his ear. The shot apparently came from
the top of some coal sheds in the rear OF
Carpenter street. Immediately ON alarm
was given, soldiers turned out and over
hauled the neighborhood, but without dis
covering anyone. The militia are at loss
how to account for the shooting unless it
was done by some Anarchists. The entire
squad Of the central detail of.police was
ON duty this morning at O'Clock. About
twenty men had been on reserve all night
and spent the time at the station instead
oibeing assigned to positions on the line OF
march. About 12:45 O'Clock, shortly
after word was received that the funeral
procession had started from August Spies
late home, Capt. Hubbard called on the
men to fall in and assigned those who had
not been ON night duty, to stations along
to the corner of Fifth avenue and Harrison
street. Four men were placed at each
street intersection. Orders were given to
stay uuti the crowd dispersed and then
go home and report this evening at 8
o'clock for duty.
FITTING MILE AFTER MILE
in gloom, down to the cold fiat earth. five
unseen, soulless figures, fleeing in death as
from the one great being for whom alone
there can be no law, found a hiding place
tonight in darkness at the most desolate
spot on the prairie's wide expanse. The
five ghastly figures were symbols OF at
tempted destruction to law. They were
the five dead Anarchists. SPIES, Parsons,
Fischer, Engel and Louis Lingg. Probably
half million people in the city OF their
terrible crime saw the last public prepara-
tions for final flight to the tomb. Scarcely
more than half the number expected 1000
men and two hundred and fifty women
aided in the ceremony by forming in pro-
cession, behind them. Ten thousand peo-
pie were present in the barest, emptiest
graveyard adjacent to Chicago, when the
corpses at last were hidden. Muttered
orI D,rr,n1Ira and crv 0f
''Throttle the law" accompanied the
parting words snoken over tie bieless bod.
les. 1t was almost to Il second the exact
time that forty-eight hours previous tine
scaffold drop tel! with August Spies and his
comrades that to-day
THE BLACKLIST OF HEARsEs
drew up at the door OF bis relatives.
More peculiar still was the fact that the
hearse was just ready to start at the pre-
else M moment corresponding to the announce
ment at the gallows that Spies had ceased
to breath. This was the beginning ct the
obseQuies. The scene is at the extreme
northwestern corner Of the city and tine
route taken resembled nothing so much
as g. monster black snake stretching right to
the centre Of Chicago and protruding out
and beyond the southwestern angle.
The serried lines Of blackness
were formed Of human beings
wedged together in an almost continuous
whole. OFF from Milwaukee avenue Spies
lived in little oasis of well-to-do Aneri'
cans and Germans, while the Others en-.
tombed to-day had places OF abode scat
tered along a t intervals of five or six blocks
close to the same thoroughfare. But in the
midst OF the most ignorant and uncoutl
.l..,o, of Nb;,,uoie foraiuY, horn nnnula
ton, about 1000 persons, most CT then
neighbors of Spies, were congregated on the
streets.
CURIOSITY HUNTERS.
The sidewalks OF the block in which Spiel
lived when the time OF the departure ar
rived, as at other places where the Anarch
ists' bodies lay, we're crowded this morning
| 4 constant stream OF mourners or curiou
sightseers had been, since about daylight
pouring through the building and viewing
the livid remains or gazing at the weepln
relatives When thu forty-eight hours afte
| the :affold drop had come and the som
bre hearse was standing patient at th'
| curb the tall stately form OF Captain
Black, the Anarchists chief counsel, wa
seen stepping out through the throng a
Spies threshold. Supported on hi
arm, with head pillowed on hi
shoulder was clinging, girlish figure clse
| in Grape from bead to foot, picture Q
utter woe. The face was completely veile
from sight. Instantly whisper wss hear
on every side: "Tbere she is There
Nina Van Zandt." That's Spies wife, l
was not till the coffin had been placed i
the bearse, the immediate mourners ha
entered carriages and five hundred blu
l. ,lyS.s hna
that the crowd discovered its mistake
Calmly seated in the first carriage,
WITHOUT SIGN OF MOURNING
in her apparel, or single trace OF grief in he
pale set countenance, the face was unmi'
takably that of Spies proxy bride. Sh
wore peculiarly yellowish pallor in he
face. She was apparelled in well-worr
fur trimmed wrap OF dark colored purp
velvet, very simply made; dress OF blac
silk and small neat bonnet to match tn
wrap. Whole crowds we're recovering frhl
surprise at Miss Van Zandt's demeanor an
dress when the black clad girl who had a.
companied Captain Black into the carriae
with Spies pseudo-wife threw bac
her veil and displayed
tearstrained features of the dead man
sister Gretchen. Alongside of Nina an
apparently deriving some consolation fro
the words of cheer spoken now and the
sat the aged mother OF Spies, who SCENE
to have rather better control Of her gri
than the daughter. The band soon strut
up mournful dirge and the processt
started slowly down Milwaukee avenu
which was lined with such a mass OF peop
as was never SEN on it before. Movl1
slowly on the procession was joined at Il
homes of Fischer, Parsons, Engel and Lin
(, by their remains ard portions OF q
parade which originated at each hous
o The scenes at each OF the houses were som
similar to those at the house OF Spies.
Y PASSING TIE HAYMARKET.
The most striking view of the processi'
was obtained at the corner of Lake al
D. splaines streets, for it brought SO vivid
to the mind the scene OF May 4, 1Ss
when the bomb was thrown. 1t was ju
1:45 O'Clock when the head OF the Ii
n reached the spot. At the corner is the {
c loon and hall OF Charles Zepf, the Anart
e ist. It was in this saloon that Parse
II took his wife and children after he had t
q ished his speech at the Haymarket.
e where they sat when the bomb was throw
1.-TWO hundred feet south, on the corn